On the left a thin man stands in profile holding a large muff, his head thrown back. He has a haughty look on his face as he looks down his nose a very stout man on the right who stands full-face at the viewer. The larger man has his hands behind his ...
Two lawyers, wearing long gowns, stand one on each side of a gaping yokel, whose left hand is in his waistcoat pocket. They look at each other in profile behind the back of their client. They are identified in an old hand as Macdonald, Solicitor-Gener...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pud. Jany. 17th, 1788 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Alvanley, Richard Pepper Arden, Baron, 1745-1804 and Macdonald, Archibald, Sir, 1747-1826
Pubd. April 24, 1788 by Josa. Baldrey, No. 19 H. Holborn, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Rumbold, Thomas, Sir, 1736-1791, and East India Company.
Subject (Topic):
Portraits, Impeachment, Taxation, Tax assessment, Justice, Donkeys, Stores & shops, Shutters, Lawyers, and Britannia (Symbolic character)
"The head of a lady in profile to the right, yawning violently. A mob-cap perched on her hair has long lappets which fall on her shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 22 May 1788 by H. Humprey [sic], N. 51 New Bond St.
"The head of a lady in profile to the right, yawning violently. A mob-cap perched on her hair has long lappets which fall on her shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 22 May 1788 by H. Humprey [sic], N. 51 New Bond St.
George III in profile to the right on a white horse rides down a stag which is under the hoofs of his rearing horse. He wears the Windsor uniform (blue coat with red collar and cuffs) and holds a riding-whip above his head. A wooded landscape suggests...
Alternative Title:
Modern Saint George
Description:
Imprint from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1788 for I. and I.B. by R. Clamp, Holborn
Subject (Name):
George, Saint, -303., West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, and George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
"Four men, their feet cut off by the lower margin, play whist at a rectangular table; each has one card in his hand and is about to play the last trick, the tricks piled on the table show that each side has six tricks. Sir Joseph Mawbey (left) looks a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Four men, their feet cut off by the lower margin, play whist at a rectangular table; each has one card in his hand and is about to play the last trick, the tricks piled on the table show that each side has six tricks. Sir Joseph Mawbey (left) looks a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 10th, 1788, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"The interior of a sale-room lit by a candelabra hanging from the ceiling. The buyers and connoisseurs sit on the outer side of a line of trestle-tables arranged in the arc of a circle. Others stand behind them. In the centre sits the auctioneer Hutch...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Candelabras, Auctioneers, Pictures, Sculpture, and Chimneypieces
"Burke sleeps in a half-reclining position, his arms folded, legs extended, spectacles pushed up on his forehead. On a pedestal above his head (right) is a bust inscribed 'Mahomet', a fierce-looking, mustachioed man. A hanging lamp burns before it. On...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publd. 26th April 1788 by Thos. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Turkey.
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, and Dimitrie Cantemir, Voivode of Moldavia, 1673-1723.
